July 2021 – catsignal

Quotable 416

You can’t just write and write and put things in a drawer. They wither without the warm sun of someone else’s appreciation.
– Anne Lindbergh

driving home –
new paint job
hides friend’s house

If you can make the reader laugh he is apt to get careless and go on reading.
– Henry Green

behind the trees
a nimbus of faux lightning –
fireworks show

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. Of course, it rarely ends that way.
– Kazuo Ishiguro

humid day
choking on
firecracker smoke

Haiku has this rather fantasmagorical property: that we always suppose we ourselves can write such things easily.
– Roland Barthes

late June
Independence Day
fireworks ignite